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Barrow

Barrow, ring-barrow

What is recorded here

On the crest of a hill in pasture. A totally overgrown, level circular area (est. int. diam. c. 20m) is defined by three low, wide earthen banks with three intervening fosses (ext. diam. c. 64m). The outer bank acts as a roadside field boundary NE-ESE (O’Riordáin 1950, 273) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 08- June 2012
A Neolithic ring-barrow, c. 3000–2500 BCE, representing an early form of communal burial monument. Its concentric banks and ditches reflect early earthwork construction techniques and social organization in the Neolithic period.

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